International nuclear inspectors reported Tuesday evening that their mission to Iran had failed, with Tehran blocking their access to a site the inspectors believe could

An Iranian official has confirmed that the government halted the death sentence by stoning of a woman charged with adultery, but he reiterated that she

Mitsui officials said that crew members on the ship, the M. Star, had seen a flash and heard an explosion. They also dismissed earlier speculation

U.S. officials say Amiri U.S. officials say Amiri voluntarily defected to the United States, then got cold feet, perhaps worried about his family in Tehran,

CAIRO — As Iran’s universities prepare to start classes this month, there is growing concern within the academic community that the government will purge political

While the young man was not identified, his charges were graphic and emotional, and documented official indifference — even callousness — toward his account. “I

“I loved the city of Qum, which has beautiful turquoise dome mosques like a city you would imagine in ‘1001 Nights,’” Mr. Yaghobzadeh said. “There

The accounts of prison abuse in Iran’s postelection crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have set off growing outrage among

The wife of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi spoke out forcefully on Thursday against the recent publication of accusations against her imprisoned brother,

A young woman, her clothing covered in blood, ran up Kargar Street, paused for a moment and said, “I am not scared, because we are

One of the most recent arrests, of Bijan Khajehpour, an independent political economist, sent a chill deeper yet into Iran’s civil society because he had

State-run television has interviewed protesters who said the Persian channel influenced them to take to the streets. One woman said the channel inspired her and

Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, declared: “If a major breach occurs in an election, the Guardian Council may annul the votes that

Despite his forceful words, however, Mr. Obama is still resisting calls from conservatives and Republicans to harshly and publicly condemn the Iranian government and impose

“It is my gut feeling that Iran would like to have the technology to enable it to have nuclear weapons,” Dr. ElBaradei, the director general

With the White House assuming a more central role in dealing with Iran, the Obama administration plans to move its senior Iran policy maker, Dennis

It is here that the young women, paid $20 to $25 a day, can be seen at all hours assembling data to help election monitors

“Five thousand innocent people were executed when you were in the government in the 1980s,” one woman told Muhammad Atrianfar a journalist who worked for

“It is another way of saying we are not putting barriers in the way of communicating,” said one administration official. “It is another way of

Obama talked of the possibility of “much stronger international sanctions” against Iran, undermining his groundbreaking earlier overture that included a core truth: “This process will

Speaking of the development and deployment of a nuclear weapon, he said, “We’re not going to create a situation in which talks become an excuse

Ms. Saberi’s arrest was part of this game. Her release now shows that the belief held by the majority is the common understanding among the